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BOOK REVIEW
Rehabilitation of sports injuries: scientific basis
Edited by Walter R Frontera. London: Blackwell, 2003, £65.00, pp 326, hardcover. ISBN 0632058137
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Do not buy this book if you are seeking the latest word on hamstring rehabilitation or current concepts in the management of multidirectional instability of the shoulder in athletes. As the title implies, this book addresses the scientific basis of the rehabilitation of sports injuries. As such it is relatively dry and will not have wide appeal for those seeking guidance in their practice of rehabilitation of the injured athlete. It does, however, provide a good review of the scientific basis of tissue healing and addresses the sound underpinning principles of rehabilitation and commonly used modalities.
As with any multiauthor edited text, the quality of individual chapters is variable. I was particularly surprised, and indeed disappointed, that the chapter addressing tissue healing and repair of bone and cartilage barely mentioned stress fractures and instead concentrated on
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